meshtags

April 26, 2006

One of the things we’ve been trying to do since we first thought of organizing mesh was tag info that related to the various sessions we’re holding, so that speakers and delegates could plug into a body of content. Our idea has been to seed that content to get the tags going, but ultimately to […]

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The New Convergence – Devices

April 26, 2006

Perhaps more than ever before, the celphone makers have an opportunity to invade markets formerly inhabited by PDAs, cameras and mp3 players – by way of example, BW Online has a short piece today (press release here; photos here) on a new generation of Nokia devices that has these other devices squarely in its sights. […]

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Canadian Music Creators Coalition

April 25, 2006

She Said BOOM (!) indeed. Yet another earthquake in the political landscape of the Canadian music industry – in a year that has seen Nettwerk’s conspicuous decision to go its own way on file sharing litigation, and the departure from CRIA of six Canadian independent music labels, as Michael Geist puts it: Some of Canada’s […]

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Goings on at CIRA

April 25, 2006

Stuart MacDonald, one of my mesh conference partners, is the new Chair of the CIRA Nominating Committee. He’s looking for a few good men and women to join the Board. Be the first on your block. (Update – the CIRA site says nominations are closed, but is referring to the Nominating Committee itself, not the […]

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“I think the frost is over”

April 24, 2006

I was interviewed for a Profit Magazine piece on the return of the web here in Toronto. And we chatted a little about mesh – my comment: “It’s a powerful way of bringing the community together and keeping it cohesive,” he says. “There’s a sincere sense of idealism and optimism in the community. I think […]

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“Don’t Buy Draft N”

April 24, 2006

Glenn Fleishman explains why he thinks we’re a tad early on 802.11n.

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A2K Wiki

April 24, 2006

Michael reports on Yale Law’s Access to Knowledge conference and notes the conference wiki, a terrific resource on the presentations, some of which will be very relevant to what we’ll be discussing at mesh.

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U.S. Judge Rules Big Music Misled Federal Investigators

April 24, 2006

From the WSJ: “A U.S. District Court judge has found that Vivendi Universal SA’s Universal Music Group and EMI Group PLC, deliberately misled federal investigators by obscuring the degree to which they sought — and gained — information about their competitors’ pricing agreements with online music services.” The proceeding appears to be part of the […]

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Feedburner Now Managing More Podcast Feeds Than Number of Worldwide Radio Stations

April 24, 2006

And the number is growing 15% per month, with circulation growing even faster. Feedburner has the details.

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Why the Web is Better

April 23, 2006

I don’t want to pick unduly on what was likely an oversight, but this strikes me as a good example of the advantage the web has in automating the contextualization of information. Earlier this week the Star reported that Ontario’s pit bull ban had been successfully challenged in Court, and the next day editorialized on […]

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The Bozo Ranting in the Corner

April 23, 2006

Jeff Jarvis’s piece on why we need less libel law online seems apropos in this time of diminishing online civility: “Do we need the courts to confirm for us that the bozo ranting in the corner is, indeed, a bozo? Rarely. But these few episodes of bad temper have given the internet cultural cooties: interaction […]

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being on the Web

April 23, 2006

I missed out on an interesting information overload discussion while I was away. Started by Andrew Orlowski (“A Thirst for Knowledge“) in the Guardian, and picked up by Nicholas Carr (“A Beautiful Mindlessness“) and BusinessPundit (“Is Concentration the New Competitive Advantage“), it’s a discussion that I see as being at least somewhat related to the […]

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